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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

"Tourists getting used to bombings" - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - English

"'Tourists getting used to bombings'

by Frans Regtien*

29-07-2008

Tourists are less and less bothered about bombings in busy holiday destinations. Social psychologist and tourism expert Ton van Egmond thinks that they may be getting used to such atrocities. Little research has been done into the results of bomb attacks on tourism, but he believes these are becoming increasingly less important to tourists. Only last Sunday evening, many people were killed or injured in a bomb attack in a predominantly Kurdish neighbourhood in Istanbul in Turkey."

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